Set Page title using UI-Router

Question

I am migrating my AngularJS based app to use ui-router instead of the built in routing. I have it configured as shown below

.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/home');
$stateProvider
    .state('home', {
        url: '/home',
        templateUrl : 'views/home.html',
        data : { pageTitle: 'Home' }

    })
    .state('about', {
        url: '/about',
        templateUrl : 'views/about.html',
        data : { pageTitle: 'About' }
    })
     });

How can I use the pageTitle variable to dynamically set the title of the page? Using the built in routing, I could do

$rootScope.$on("$routeChangeSuccess", function(currentRoute, previousRoute){
    $rootScope.pageTitle = $route.current.data.pageTitle;
  });

and then bind the variable in HTML as shown below

<title ng-bind="$root.pageTitle"></title>

Is there a similar event that I can hook into using ui-router? I noticed that there are 'onEnter' and 'onExit' functions but they seem to be tied to each state and will require me to repeat code to set the $rootScope variable for each state.

Answer 1

Attaching $state to $rootscope to use anywhere in the app.

app.run(['$rootScope', '$state', '$stateParams',
    function ($rootScope,   $state,   $stateParams) {

        // It's very handy to add references to $state and $stateParams to the $rootScope
        // so that you can access them from any scope within your applications.For example,
        // <li ng-class="{ active: $state.includes('contacts.list') }"> will set the <li>
        // to active whenever 'contacts.list' or one of its decendents is active.
        $rootScope.$state = $state;
        $rootScope.$stateParams = $stateParams;
    }
  ]
)

<title ng-bind="$state.current.name + ' - ui-router'">about - ui-router</title>

Answer 2

Maybe you can try this directive.

https://github.com/afeiship/angular-dynamic-title

Here is the example:

html:

<title dynamic-title>Title</title>

<a href="javascript:;" ui-sref="state1">State1 page</a>
<a href="javascript:;" ui-sref="state2">State2 page</a>

javascript:

var TestModule = angular.module('TestApp', ['ui.router','nx.widget'])
    .config(function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
      //
      // For any unmatched url, redirect to /state1
      $urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/state1");
      //
      // Now set up the states
      $stateProvider
        .state('state1', {
          url: "/state1",
          templateUrl: "partials/state1.html",
          data:{
            pageTitle:'State1 page title11111'
          }
        })
        .state('state2', {
          url: "/state2",
          templateUrl: "partials/state2.html",data:{
            pageTitle:'State2 page title222222'
          }
        });
    })
    .controller('MainCtrl', function ($scope) {
      console.log('initial ctrl!');
    });